Reminder of tools/skills you can/should/might use:
- interviews with cutaways to voiceover (required)
- ID banners for interviewees (required)
- voiceover(s) (required)
- consistent (or intentionally inconsistent) transition vocabulary (required)
- audio normalized (required)
- output to mp4, HD (required)
- titles (required)
- credits (required)
- interesting variety of shots (required)
- interesting length of clips (long takes: very rare) (required)
- slider shots
- dolly/tracking shots
- handheld shots
- multiple shots anticipating use during voiceovers
- rule of thirds for framing
- controlled depth-of-field
- montage
- time-lapse shots (beginning? ending?)
- establishing shot, then visual element enters frame
- sound effect added to unify mini-montage, perhaps behind voiceover (e.g., birds twittering)
- non-diegetic music added
- overlapping sound (esp, maybe from/to blackouts)
- color correction
- color desaturation
- slo-mo/”fast forward”
- non-diegetic sound
- conscious story arc
- transcription of off-screen interviewer questions
- still photos, Ken Burns-ed
- post-production pans/zooms/crops